PS/2 mouse not detected

[rewaji]

i recently bought myself a ps/2 wheel mouse. however after removing my previous serial mouse and connecting the new mouse to the ps/2 port the new mouse does not respond at all. i have installed the driver that came with the mouse. the device manager resources says that the mouse is using IRQ12 without any conflicts. BUT at the same time the mouse is not detected and is shown with a warning sign(!) beside it.i have also tried in vain to use standard ps/2 mouse driver.

i have pentium I 233 Mhz system with 3 pci slots running windows me.

please help !

rewaji

 

[Mulga]

Could be a faulty mouse, can you borrow another PS2 one to try, just a basic one will do. Remove the drivers for your mouse and just use the standard driver. If your mouse is OK it should also work with just the standard driver, the only things you will lack will be some of the features All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.

 

[Guest_imported]

Check in the BIOS that the PS/2 port is enabled. This may be an older style motherboard that you have, so is the PS/2 port integral with the board or on a fly lead from a pin header? If yes, then re-check the fly lead connection to the motherboard.

Also, some old DOS based diagnostic progs are good for checking peripherals like a mouse - I use CHECKIT after first loading a basic DOS mouse driver.


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